Cochrane Library

Cochrane library 

Publisher Name
John Wiley & Sons Ltd for The Cochrane Collaboration

Year Joined PERii
2002

Resource Name
The Cochrane Library

Resource Type
Online through Wiley Interscience

Access URL
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com

Title List
Document 2010 title list (10kb)

Content Overview
The Cochrane Library is a collection of online searchable databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane Reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane Reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information, from other systematic reviews abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials all the current evidence in one single environment.
The Cochrane Library contains:

  • The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Cochrane Reviews investigate the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation in a healthcare setting. They are designed to facilitate the choices that doctors, patients, policy makers, and others face in health care
  • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (Other Reviews): Complements Cochrane Reviews by quality-assessing and summarising reviews which have not been carried out by The Cochrane Collaboration
  • Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Clinical Trials): Includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic databases and other published resources
  • The Cochrane Methodology Register (Method Studies): Presents a bibliography of publications that report on methods used when conducting controlled trials
  • Health Technology Assessment Database (Technology Assessments): Brings together details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world 
  • The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (Economic Evaluations): NHS EED assists decision-makers by systematically identifying economic evaluations from around the world, appraising their quality and highlighting their relative strengths and weaknesses
  • EBM Guidelines: is an online aid in both diagnostic improvement and patient care. It fills the need for a resource addressing the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of diseases and conditions encountered by health care professionals. Further information on this new resource is available via pdf: Access information 2009 ( Document 50kb).

Subject Strengths

  • Evidence based medicine
  • Clinical trials

Service Strengths

  • Saved Search Alerts: Retrieve and re-run detailed search queries in My Profile or set Saved Search email Alerts to notify you whenever new content that matches the specified search is published online
  • Citation Tracking: Citation Tracking allows you to view published works that have cited an article you are currently reading by selecting citations from journals on Wiley InterScience and other publisher sites. Citation Tracking is accessible only for licenced publications
  • Citation Download: Download abstracts and citations from online books and journals directly into reference management software applications such as Endnote
  • Easy navigation from a reference in a review to the cited journal article
  • Links from many CENTRAL records to the corresponding record in PubMed
  • Links to MEDLINE Abstracts and ISI Web of Science®

Impact Factors
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: first Impact Factor of 4.654
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ranked 14 out of 100 worldwide in ISI Thomson's Medicine, General & Internal category for journals. This ranking is a testament to the high regard in which The Cochrane Collaboration's work is held by its peers in the field, and to the hard work of all Cochrane contributors.

More information about impact factors can be online.

Usage Guides
Self-paced tutorial e-learning modules available, in the following languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Italian, Turkish and German (scroll down to the section on The Cochrane Library after following this link).

Registration Information
You do not need to register to use this resource. IP addresses from developing countries are recognized automatically.

Access Information
Access by IP address recognition with username and password access for remote users.

In addition, countries in the World Bank list of Low Income Economies have free 1 click access to The Cochrane Library. The free access is provided by The Cochrane Collaboration and John Wiley.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
Please contact: Helen Mansell - hmansell@wiley.com

URL to General Publisher Site
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/

Further Information from you Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.

Information for Librarians

Administration Information
See the Interscience website for Administration details.

Platform
Wiley Interscience

Promotional Information/Material
View a short PowerPoint Presentation or a PDF brochure explaining What is The Cochrane Library? What are the benefits and features?

Cochrane A4 poster (Document 525kb)

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Usage Data Collection

  1. Institutions and Librarians can access usage statistics by logging into the administration area if they access has been set up via PERii
  2. The country coordinator can also request usage statistics for their country by e-mailing hmansell@wiley.com for the free access for low income countries.

PERii FAQs
To find the answer to the most commonly asked questions about registration and access, see the Information resources FAQ page.

PERii Help Documents
Please see the online help documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, registration, registration record keeping, downloading from publishers websites, access issues and statistics.

Publisher FAQs
An online self help is available via Online Self-Help (English) where visitors can display answers to questions related to The Cochrane Library.

This option is also available in the following languages Korean, Japanese, simplified Chinese, German, French, and Spanish.